Opinion in Brief: Did pollsters ask him?

Obama aides were dismayed by their guy’s debate performance but even more dismayed by something else immediately after the debate, according to Toby Harnden of the British Mail. He says administration sources told him their jaws dropped upon seeing right after the debate that President Obama was convinced he had done just fine, great, even — indeed that he had won it going away. Uh, um, er, Mr. President... Obama’s “disdain” for Mitt Romney fed the Prez’s over-confidence, his aides said, as Harnden tells it, anyway. — The Trentonian.